Sentences with phrase «first video game movie»

Dwayne Johnson has been reflecting on his first video game movie experience Doom — and knows all too well it was a failure.

Hopefully with this tremendous cast, we could witness the first video game movie that doesn't make you regret your life decisions.

Not exact matches

First, we create intellectual properties, universes and characters, that can exist in many formats, whether TV, movies, toys or video games.

The term first entered popular culture via a gay bar scene in a 1998 comedy / drama movie called «Pecker» and then video game players imitating the act.

I am shy at first until I warm up to you, I love playing video games, cards, hiking, camping, eating out, bowling, movies but am more of a homebody that would normally prefer snuggling and watching a movie or playing some games.

This may be the first time in video game history that a licensed DS title far exceeds the movie it's based on.

Although deservedly R - Rated, the first film didn't feel like a movie based on a video game.

This is the first Ninja Turtles video game that is not directly tied to a movie, television show or comic book.

Dwayne Johnson has revealed the first poster for his upcoming action movie Rampage, the big - screen adaptation of the video game due in cinemas next...

You didn't have to have massive knowledge of the video game to understand the first movie.

Warcraft: The Beginning is the third video game movie released this year and the first one which is acting as a studio tentpole.

Universal and Legendary have officially debuted the first full - length trailer for Duncan Jones» big screen Warcraft movie, adapting the video game series created by Blizzard Entertainment.

McFarlane Toys has unveiled the first figure from the Assassin's Creed movie which is based on the image of Michael Fassbender's Aguilar from Justin Kurzel's upcoming big screen adaptation of the hit video game series; take a look below... Aguilar is a warrior in 15th century Spain, during the Inquisition.

Universal Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have announced that principal photography is now underway on the very first live - action Pokemon movie, Detective Pikachu, based upon the video game of the same name.

The original script by «Mortal Kombat» creator John Tobias and the first movie's producer, Lawrence Kasanoff (along with Joshua Wexler), was ditched in favor of a barebones one by b - movie horror scribe Brent V. Friedman and TV writer Bryce Zabel, who mostly ignore the video game's style in order to make the film a standalone horror - action fantasy.

Today, 20th Century Fox released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming video game movie reboot of the Hitman series.

And, in an even bigger feat, finally deliver the first good adaptation of a video game into a movie?

It seemed to me that the first movie lent itself a little easier to a video game adaptation and the developers had a little more work on their hands with adapting the second.

It's not the first video game adaptation Johnson has been involved with, he also starred in 2005's Doom, though I'm not sure if anyone actually saw that movie.

««Ready Player One» tells a breathless and relatively coherent story — essentially, the future of civilization is riding on the outcome of a video game — but the movie, first and foremost, is a coruscating explosion of pop - culture eye candy,» Gleiberman wrote.

The trailer reveals the plot point that she must recover five mystical items in order to escape, which feels more like a video game than a movie (not the first time one of Snyder's films has invited that comparison).

Video game movies are still looking for their first hit and a way to crack it like the comic book movies did it.

Matt Rodgers on the best ever video game movie scenes... The first part of 2018 will see two high profile videogame adaptations hit the big screen in an attempt to do what 2016's Assassin's Creed couldn't, by breaking a curse which has stretched back as far as 1993's infamous Super Mario Bros. movie.

They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.

It's wonderful, because there are actually a lot of call backs and references to the video game in the movie, so gamers are going to get a lot out of the film and will probably catch some things casual movie goers may miss the first time around.

The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first few «Die Hard» movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and video games.

In «The Lego Movie,» the toy brand's first theatrical feature (there have been previous straight - to - DVD movies and also video games), audiences are encouraged to wave off routine.

Interviews with Gans (who confesses to being scared to tears by the video game when he first played it) and Avary are among the more interesting tidbits, but it's also rather amazing to see how the movie's vast and eerie Silent Hill exteriors were actually constructed indoors in Vancouver.

Films adapted from video games have now been around long enough for the first major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie - starring films from 2001 and 2003, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video - game adaptations.

Rovio and Sony Pictures have released the first trailer for their upcoming video game adapation The Angry Birds Movie and we have it for you below!

The first mistake seemingly always made by studios looking to make the Great American Video Game Movie is choosing a game to adapt by the financially safe arithmetic of «biggest built - in audience plus largest potential explosions equals box office gold.&raGame Movie is choosing a game to adapt by the financially safe arithmetic of «biggest built - in audience plus largest potential explosions equals box office gold.&ragame to adapt by the financially safe arithmetic of «biggest built - in audience plus largest potential explosions equals box office gold.»

The Tomb Raider video game franchise has seen new life since its gritty and realistic reboot from which the film draws its inspiration from, but the first Tomb Raider trailer - like many of our «first looks» at 2018 movies so far - and poster failed to impress.

Although the franchise was largely a financial success and the first movie is often considered one of the better examples of a video game - to - movie adaptation, the Resident Evil franchise attracted mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film run.

The first is that studio executives and / or director and writers obviously think that after a generation of the violence in video games and blockbuster movies, the old literary institutions like curiosity, innocence, mystery and wonder simply aren't enough to entertain us anymore.

That was an incredible experience for me, as a first - time feature director, as I spent my life watching movies and playing video games.

Today's Japanese news: latest recap video for Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2: Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Kakugo, trailer and commercial for the 4th Yo - kai Watch movie, screenshots for the latest DLC quest for Monster Hunter XX, Imagineer now working on a Nintendo Switch game, livestream recording and merchandise for The Alliance Alive, cover and details for the Etrian Odyssey artbook that comes with the first - print copies of Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2, screenshots for the latest batch of DLC for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 with Power - up Kit, and the Sonic Boom anime series headed to Netflix in Japan!

Batman: Assault on Arkham is the first movie based on the popular Batman: Arkham Asylum video game franchise and tells the origin story of this bad guy team - up.

Also new this week: The Invention of Lying (Warner) co-written and co-directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, Whiteout (Warner) with Kate Beckinsale, the literal video game movie Gamer (Lionsgate) with Gerard Butler and the German farce My Führer (First Run).

The Super Mario Bros. film, released on May 28, 1993, is a science fiction live - action movie adaptation of the series, loosely based on the games, and the first Hollywood adaptation of a video game property.

Instinctively, anytime we hear of a video game being adapted into a movie the first thing to do is to write it off completely.

Teenage Groot: How quickly Baby Groots grow up... After regenerating at the end of the first movie, everyone's favorite talking tree has hit puberty, becoming an angst - y teenager who spends his time playing «mindless» video games and arguing with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) about cleaning his room.

And then there was this summer's «Edge Of Tomorrow,» which could lay claim to being the first great video game movie, despite not being based on a video game.

Final results of these movies vary big time, some become lame efforts, where we think it was not right in the first place to go for the movie adaption, but some on the contrary and to our surprise turn out to be the best examples of how a video game should transform into a movie.

We've argued this point before, but the first couple of decades of the video game saw the medium taking most of its cues from the movies.

Alicia Vikander's Tomb Raider reboot is the first truly great video game movie - and it does so by rejecting the conventional approach to the «genre».

If someone tells you that he / she didn't like the movie, it means they saw the movie for the first time and are completely unaware of the Rampage video game history.

This will be the first live - action Pokemon movie ever made since the first manga and video games were created back in the 90s.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

Its enduring popularity has been helped by its success as a popular model in the Gran Turismo ® driving simulator video game series, which is only playable on PlayStation consoles, and as a starring car in the first film in The Fast and the Furious global action movie series.

Have you noticed the growing number of directors, particularly in the horror and sci - genres, making movies that resemble the «first person shooter» perspective of video games?